Time Issues

[mrdhood]

Hey I'm having issues with using strtotime(), date(), and time().

 

I have a couple problems.

The first is: I used strtotime to get the unix of a specific date and time (worked great, even outputted the correct time using date() to return it). However when I went to post information on it (I set it up so that you can't post after the event started), it told me it already started like an hour before it was supposed to. I used

if (time() > $event['when']) { echo "too late."; } else { do it }

to determine.

 

That had me very confused.

 

Then I decided instead of manually inputting the event times I would pull them from an xml file, which I had no trouble reading.

 

I used:

 strtotime("Next $day, $time PM")

with $day = Sun, $time = 1:00- This outputted a unix timestamp but then date() returned it as being 7 pm on sunday instead.

 

Any ideas what would be causing these strange things?

[mrdhood]

I used

if (time() > $event['when']) { echo "too late."; } else { do it }

to determine.

 

Wouldn't let me edit, but that was suppose to read ".. to determine whether you can post or not".

[teynon]

What is the value of $event['when'] and time() and what should the values be?

[teynon]

Running this on my machine:

echo date("F d, Y G:i:s a", strtotime("Next Sun, 1:00 PM"));

Outputs November 27, 2011 13:00:00 pm which is correct.

[mrdhood]

I don't have the information from when time() and $event['when'] weren't working.

 

1322420400 is the int that strtotime("Next Sun, 1:00 PM") returns on my machine, is that the same on yours?

[teynon]

It's important to know where $event['when'] is coming from and what the values are. You need to make a test case or it's going to be hard to figure out whats going on. I promise you strtotime works fine.